Improvement in ink-bottles



J. W. CARTER. Ink-Bottle.

No...,2 17,926. Patented-July 29, I879.

Wihjes sa. Iq Y/Eqlnr N. FErERs, PHOTQ-LURQGRAPHER, WASH NGTON D uUNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE JOHN W. CARTER, 013 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INK-BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,926, dated July 29,1879 application filed May 22, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. CARTER, ofBoston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Ink- Bott-les, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to ink-bottles, and has for its object theformation, with a bottle having an open mouth and neck, of a pen-holdingprojection or rest blown as an integral part of the bottle, theprojection being at or below the neck of the bottle, substantially asherein described.

Figure 1 represents, in side elevation, an inkbottle embodying myinvention, and Fig. 2 a top view thereof.

My invention is applicable only to that kind of ink-bottle which has abase, a, a neck, I), and at the top of the neck-it also being the top ofthe bottle-an open mouth, 0, for the reception of a cork.

Between the mouth of the bottle, and at or near its neck, but above thebase a, is a penholding projection, d, which is blown or formed as partof the bottle during its manufacture, in molds, as usual inbottle-making. This projecting collar at or near the bottle-neckstrengthens the bottle, affords a good and serviceable pen rack orholder, and does not materially add to the cost of the bottle.

I do not broadly claim a pen-holdin g portion at the top of aself-feeding inkstand.

The projection or shelf may be slightly concaved at top,- if desired, asin Fig. 1.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, the describedink-bottle, having formed therewith, at or near its neck, a pen-rack,shelf, or projection, d, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. CARTER.

WVitnesses:

F. W. CUTLER, ALFRED H. BARTLETT.

